Rebecca's Tale (2001) (edit title/settings)

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• Colonel Arthur Lancelot Julyan: One of the the book's four narrators who is a long-time friend of the de Winters. He seeks to solve the reason for Rebecca's disappearance.
• Rebecca de Winter: Wife of Maxim de Winnter and mistress of Manderley. Disappeared in a sailing accident; assumed to have committed suicide.
• Maxim de Winter: Manderley's owner who died in a car crash about five years before the time of the novel.
• Lionel de Winter: Maxim's father
• Virginia de Winter: Maxim's mother
• Isolda Grenville: Maxim's unmarried aunt and Virginia's younger sister.
• Virginia Briggs: The eldest of the "Three Graces" who married a shipping magnate. Rebecca lives with the family when her mother was in a convalescent home.
• Henry Lucas Julyan: Parish rector, amateur botanist, and Arthur's grandfather who raised him after his father died.
• Mrs. de Winter the elder: Maxim's grandmother nicknamed Termagant by Tilly
• Tilly: Arthur's nurse as a boy
• Terence "Terry" Gray: One of the the book's four narrators, a local historian researching the de Winters and Manderley for a possible book. He is attracted to Ellie.
• Ellie Julyan: Arthur's beloved daughter and only surviving family member
• Frith: de Winters' nosy, former butler living now in a nursing home
• Marjorie Lane: Recently moved to Kerrith, she has become the secretary for local historian society. Arthur has little respect for her.
• Rose: Arthur's sister who Arthur believes to be a "feminist, a man-hating eccentric, and an embarrassment to the entire family."
• Frank Crawley: Mandaley's former estate manager
• Jack Favell: Rebecca's ne'er-do-well cousin
• Elinor Briggs: The eldest of the spinster sisters who is a childhood friend of Arthur and Terrence's current friend.
• Jocelyn Briggs: The younger of the spinster sisters who is a childhood friend of Arthur and Terrence's current friend.
• Sarah Carminowe: Mandeley's maid
• Francis Browne: London bookseller who assists Terry in his research on Rebecca de Winter.
• Jack "Blackjack" Devlin: Rebecca's purported father
• Edwin Galbraith: Terry's adoptive father since 10 years of age.
• May Galbraith: Edwin's wife and Terry's adoptive mother since 10 years of age.
• Tom Galbraith: Terrence Gray's adopted name.
• Selena Fox-Hamilton: The woman who lived below Rebecca's flat on Tite Street, London.
• Edith Danvers ("Danny"): Rebecca's devoted housekeeper and personal maid. Before Mandalay, she was the senior nursemaid for the Grenville family.
• Sir Frank McKendrick: Actor and owner of a Shakespearean touring company in which Rebecca and her mother were actresses.
• Francis Latimer: Arthur's physician who is interested in purchasing The Pines.
• Mrs. Maxim de Winter: Max's second wife and widow

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• “We can be our own ghosts, too, we can haunt ourselves--did you know that?”

  Rebecca de Winter

• “Anger opens a wide, wide door and even now sex lies in wait on the other side of the portal.”

  Rebecca de Winter

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• Mandeley: de Winters family home since the 11th century located in England's West Country on the coast. Burned to the ground shortly after the Rebecca's disappearance.
• The Pines: Arthur's home in Kerrith.
• London: Terry travels to London to interview several interviews who knew Rebecca before Mandeley.
• 12 C Tite Street: The flat that Rebecca maintained in London while at Mandeley.

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1. Sally Beauman (Author)

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• Dewey: 823.914

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary

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